Dr. Janet Grant

Position: CenMEDIC (the Centre for Medical Education in Context) and the FAIMER Centre for Distance Learning, London.

Dr Janet Grant is WFME special adviser and is Director of CenMEDIC (the Centre for Medical Education in Context) and the FAIMER Centre for Distance Learning.
She is an emeritus professor of education in medicine at the Open University in the UK.
Her interests are in policy research in medical education, regulation, educational development, continuing professional development, and curriculum.
For most of her academic life, Janet conducted policy research in medical education for the UK government and professional medical and regulatory bodies.
She has written extensively on contextual relevance in these topics. CenMEDIC runs an international distance learning master’s course on accreditation and assessment in health professions education for the US Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research [FAIMER] and Keele University Medical School in the UK.
Her Centre also developed and manages Sci59, the online psychometric Specialty Choice Inventory, and the online Diagnostic Thinking Inventory.
Janet has been a regulator in both medical education and legal education.